“[Bipartisan letter to President Trump from 14 senators, led by Jeanne Shaheen and Roger Wicker:] President Putin bears sole responsibility for launching Russia's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. Allowing him to participate in a G20 Summit in the United States raises serious concerns about legitimizing and normalizing a government that continues to attack Ukrainian civilian targets every day. … As Russia continues its war against Ukraine and refuses to agree to a just and lasting peace agreement, its government should not be afforded a business-as-usual treatment alongside other nations at G20 events. … We urge you to reverse course and rescind the invitation to President Putin.
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“My initial investigation into misconduct at the Center focused on cronyism and corruption. … The documents that I attach today seem to reveal deeper financial mismanagement. … Your failure to respond to my previous requests for financial documents, and the unexplained sudden departure of the CFO, suggest that something is seriously wrong at the Center. [Whitehouse wrote that the documents showed Kennedy Center leadership had "hoarded" congressionally appropriated repair funding "while blaming previous leadership for the state of repairs."]
“When will Republicans concede the man has lost his mind?
“The Board is again openly flouting a court order in voting to put President Trump's name on the building to recognize his construction genius — a laughable idea given his abject failure in his efforts to renovate the Reflecting Pool.
“They are creating this enormous money pump, pulling billions of dollars out of consumers’ pockets. That’s the real story of what is going on here. There’s method here, and it’s a real scam.
“By blessing this overtly partisan challenge to a commonsense election spending limit, the extremist wing of the Court again delivered the goods, for the GOP billionaires and right-wing special interests who captured it, just as the flotilla of right-wing amici instructed.
“MAGA Attorney General Pam Bondi cashed in her integrity to keep her job and now leaves with neither.